File binder



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JOHNPARKS ALMAND, 0F LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS.

FILE BINDER.

Application led December 23, 1922. Serial No. 608,670.

T0 @ZZ whom t mag/,concern e ,Be it known that l, JOHN P. ALMAND, a citizen of the United States, residing at Little Rock, in the county .of Pulaski and State of Arkansas, have invented certain new and useful improvements in File Binders, of which the following is' a specification.

The present invention. relates to improvements in binders for use particularly in the vertical filing of drawings andother papers and the invention has for an object to provide for ease in the filing and security in holdino' the papers.

Another obj-ect of the invention isvto pro-l vide an improved binder or holder for the drawings or other material in which noV perforating, marring, discoloring or `otherwise injuring the material would result, butin which an even and uniform pressure 'will be brought to bear upon such material with the result that no opportunity is afforded for the escape of the matter on file; however, the device admits oflthe easy accessibility and removal of the papers and drawings and provides a binder in which one or more sheets may` be securely held, while having a relatively large capacity for numbers of sheets. v A

The invention further aims to provide a binder and support which will permit. of the removal vof the sheets without disturbing other sheets in adjacent binders and which willbe adaptable for lmounting in numbers in the vfiling cabinet.

With the foregoing and other objects in viewftheY invention will be more fully described hereinafter, and will be more particularly pointedl out,V inthe claims appended hereto.

In the drawings, wherein like symbols refer to like or corresponding parts throughout the several views,

Figure 1 is a front view of the improved binder and its support indicating how the material is suspended.

Figure 2 is a fragmentary view with parts broken away and on an enlarged scale showin one of the clamps and associated parts.

Figure 3 is an edge view of the parts shown in Figure 2.

Figure 4 is a bottom plan view of the device shown in Figure 2, and

Figure 5 is a vertical section through the clamping device.

Referring more particularly to the drawings the top portion of the cabinet is indicated at 6, thisbeing represented in dotted lines in Figures 2, 3 and 5 and to the lower face of this cabinet top or to other suitable support is afliXed a channel rail 7' composed advantageously of sheet steel or other sheet material suspended, as by the screws or other fastenings 8 which penetrate its intermediate upper portion. i

The channel 7 suitably light in order to avoid imposing a too great weight upon the cabinet top 6, as these channel rails or tracks are provided in numbers, side by side, within the cabinet, which encloses the material tiled awayand prevents the accumulation of dust thereon; and the lower portions 0f the channel rails `are bent inwardly and toward one another as indicated at 9 and 10, the edge portions of the material being turned upwardly and folded backwardly into substantial parallelism with the parts 9 and 10, resulting in the formation of rounded lips 11 and 12 which flank the open mouth of the channel. Into this Open mouth and slidable therealong are the Shanks 13 of screws, bolts or other fastenings provided with the enlarged heads 14 which rest upon the lips 11 and 12 and support theclamp devices and the papers,'while at the same time allowing of the sliding of the. heads 14 into and out of the channel rails or tracks. As more particularlyy seen inrFigure 5, the lower ends of the bolts y.13 are threaded, as indicated at 15, into threaded openings provided in bosses 16 of the clamping bodies 17, there being lock nuts 18 for binding the bolts against accidental or casualmovement. The inner ends of thebolts 1B-take against the tubes 19 which pass through the openings 20 made in the upper portions of the clamp bodies 17 and which form with two clamp bodies, as indicated in Figure 1, a filing unit which is removable as a whole from the track or channel rail.

The lower portions of the clamp bodies are bifurcated or provided with slots 21 open at opposite sides and at the bottom thereof and being of suitable width or depth to receive a desired number of sheets 'of drawings or other papers to be filed. In one leg 22 of the bifurcated part is a relatively deep recess 23 of circular or other character to receive a clamp plate 24 carried upon the inner reduced end of a pin or Stud 25. The outer enlarged portion 26 of the stud abuts against a wear plate 27 carried by the cap 28 which is internally threaded as indicated at 29 to cooperate with external threads 30 upon a block 31 removably secured', as by the screws 32 to the clamp leg 22, the screws entering the latter andbeing countersunk in the outer face of the block 31. Now the block 31 is perforated centrally as indicated 33 and this perforation registers with a socket 34 made in the clamp leg 22 and being slightly wider than the perforation through which slidably passes the pin or stud 25. A coil spring 35 isjwound about the reduced portion of the pin or stud' bearing at one end against the base of the socket 34 and at its other end against the shoulder' 36 between the reduced and enlarged portions of the said stud or pin. The clamp plate 24 is affixed tothe inner end' of the stud or pin in any suitable manner as by upsetting such end within-a countersunk opening made in the plate.

Now in the use of the device, 4two or more of the clamp devices are slid upon a tube 19 and are aHiXed in a definite spaced. relation by the screws 13 which are thereupon locked in position, the paper or drawings are then inserted in the slot 21 and' by rotating the cap 28 the pin or stud is driven inwardly, forcing the plate 24 to bind the papers against the opposite leg of Jche clamp device. During this action the spring 35 will be compressed, so that when the cap 28 is turned in an lopposite Adirection to cause it to recede from the pin or stud, such spring will expand and cause the pin or stud to follow the cap andthe clamp plate 24 to retire into the recess 23. The clamp plate 24 affords a broad surface which is flat and therefore noperforating of the papers to be clamped is required and the extensive face over which the pressure is distributed is such as to even avoid any marks whatsoever uponl the material. lThe device may be used to clamp a single sheet just as effectivelyas a great number of sheets and the construction of the cap is such as to admit of its .easy and convenient rotation in eitherA direction and lthe use of the screw thread enables the spring 35 to be compressed Without appreciable effort on thepart of the user.

As much ofthe device as is practicable is preferably constructed of aluminum to render the parts light. The clamp body 17 is of aluminuin, butthe block 31 and the cap 28 are advantageously of brass on account of the screw threads. The clamp plate 24 is also of brass while the pin or stud is of steel and the plate 2T is also preferably of steel.

By simply drawing the entire clamping unitV in a direction axially of the tube 19, the heads 14 of the bolt-smay be slid out of one end of the channel track or rail 7 and in this way the whole unit is dismounted from the file cabinet and the support. The device may be thus taken to a convenient. place where the `file papers-,may be removed or others placed therein, The replacement of the device upon the rail is conducted with ease but without interfering with or disturbing adjacent units in the tile cabinet.

It is obvious that various changes and modifications may be,` made in the details of construction and design ofthe above specifically described embodiment ofthis invention without departing from the. spirit thereof, such changes and modifications being .ref stricted only by the scope ofthe following claims: i v

What is claimed is:

1. A binder comprising a body having spaced legs, a plateassociated with one leg, a post connected to the plate a spring kfor urging the plate outwardly, a block removably secured'to the outside of `one leg, `and a; cap threaded on the blockand engaging the post. i

2. A binder comprising a channel track, a rod,` and Clamps spaced 119011 .Sad'rod'fand having means to slide -in the channel track.

3. A ,binder comprisin va .channel track, a hollowyk rod therebeneat ,v a. plnrality' 0f clamps for holding papers and the like, :and means both to secure said clamps tothe rod' in spaced relation and to slidablysnpport e5 the clamps and rod from the channel'track.

l JOHN PAR-Ks ALMAN-D. 

